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The historians

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A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which sits a bust of “Alfred rex”. Both figures wear the same enormous hair as in British Museum no. 5441.

  • Printmaker: Darly, Mattina, printmaker.
  • Title: The historians [graphic] / Mattina Darly sculp.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. May 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand, [1 May 1777]

Catalog Record 

777.05.01.08

Acquired April 2018

A lecture on wigs illustrated by a man who does not wear one

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6 plates of dignitaries in official wigs, law wig, bar wig, reverend wig, etc., the top 5 with cutouts revealing face on the 6th plate which is depicted with natural uncut and unattractive locks.

  • Title: A lecture on wigs illustrated by a man who does not wear one : addressed to all the wig wearers and wig makers in the United Kingdom.
  • Published: London : Printed and published for the author, by Gold and Walton, 24, Wardour Street, Soho, 1818.

Catalog Record

657 818 L43

Acquired November 2003

[A barber’s shop]

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[A barber's shop]

A scene in a barber’s shop in which the center figure is a man seated, full-face, swathed in a sheet, while a boy (left) applies tongs to his hair, which a man (right) is combing. In the foreground (left) a customer is seated, clasping his bald head with a concerned expression as he reads a newspaper “Morning post” dated Nov. 3, 1807.

    • Artist: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
    • Title: [A barber’s shop]
    • Created: [London, 1807]

Catalog record & Digital collection

Drawer Drawings B87 no. 29

Acquired October 2012